| Description Of Item | The volume is uniformly written and laid out, with some careful amendments, and the pages are consecutively numbered. As such it can be assumed that the manuscripts were copied at the same time and not kept separately before being bound. The index indicates whether an item was copied from a printed or manuscript source and this has been noted in each entry.
According to McCallum, the 1767 library catalogue described this volume as containing 15 tracts although the contents pages list 50. Possibly the librarian listing the item only looked at the first contents page and not the subsequent pages. It should be noted that two manuscripts, number 13 (pp575-589) and number 14 (pp734-740) do not appear in the volume in the position they appear in the contents list. Other than these examples the contents list is reliable so the individual items within the volume have not been numbered. |